Google developers updated the Messages application, designed to work with SMS by default. Now it has two new features: Verified SMS and Spam Protection.
As indicated by the name of the first feature, Verified SMS confirms the message sender's identity. Verification will only be done to assess the validity of SMS messages sent by businesses, but will not function for ordinary user messages.
You can see their name and logo in the message thread for confirmed companies as well as a verification icon.
The developers emphasize that Verified SMS does not send messages for verification to Google's servers, and explain that the function was created to additionally protect such things as one-time passwords, account alerts, and so on.
So the user can be sure of receiving an SMS from the service, not from scammers.
Although the manufacturer does not explain how the technology works, Google engineers say they can detect SMS messages sent from random numbers that have not previously been associated with a particular company, thereby avoiding any phishing attacks.
The new feature already extends to users from nine countries: the United States, India, Mexico, Brazil, Britain, France, the Philippines, Spain, and Canada.
Spam Protection, the second feature with a speaking name, is designed to provide spam protection.
The feature shows a special alert panel at the top of the Messages if the software believes that there are signs of classic SMS spam in the newly received email.
Spam security is also reported to work without sending user SMS messages to Google servers while retaining contact privacy.
Google said this feature is already running in several countries, but is now open to U.S. users.
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